Why Him?

From all the people on earth G-d decides to choose Billam as his prophet. 

Billam, the man who wanted to curse the Jews so badly, that when G-d forced him to bless the Jews he convinced his own people to send their daughters to entice the Jews to sin. Every time I read the story I ask myself could G-d not have found someone more moral and deserving for the job?

This morning it came to me.

What if G-d chose Billam so we can appreciate Moses?

We look at Moses and we say to ourselves that if only G-d would speak to us we would be as great as Moses. So G-d decides to speak to Billam; showing that prophecy alone is no assurance to morality. It's not the prophecy that makes the person great, rather it's the person's own effort that makes him a great prophet.

The same is true for every person. When we feel an inspiration from above we must know that the inspiration alone will not make us Mosses-like. To be like Moses we must ensure that we, inspired by the gift of inspiration, will work hard to improve ourselves.

What on Earth is Spirituality?

Reading? Thinking? Swimming? Yoga?

The most accurate description of spirituality is change.

“What does change have to do with spirituality?” you ask.

A spiritual phenomena is undefinable in physical terms, and is therefore not bound to any particular form of existence; beacuse if it has to remain in a specific form then it is bound to a specific definition, thus compromising it's spirituality.

Therefore, the plant, which grows and changes, is more spiritual then the the stone, which does not change at all. The plant, however, is rooted in a specific place from which it can't break away. Thus the animal, which roams the earth freely, is more spiritual the the plant. And nothing in this world is more spiritual then the person who transcends himself to speak to another person.

It follows, therefore, that the act of changing, not being bound by your previous state of being, is the ultimate expression of one's spirituality-boundlessness.

[This explains why the human being is described in Jewish literature as “speaker”, not “thinker”; true, the thinker may feels spiritual beacuse he is breaking loose of his state of being and allowing his mind to roam freely; true freedom, however, is connecting to another person, breaking out of the most difficult bondage to escape, the bondage to the self.]

(Leku"s Yisro 6:1)